OUR LOCAL WILD WEST

BY DON DOUCETTE

WOODCOCK HOUSE NORTH ATTLEBOROUGH

John Woodcock’s fortress outpost in the northern Ten Mile River Watershed, William Blackstone’s remote Study Hill in Lonsdale, the Bucklin family and the Daggett family as neighbors and a few others homesteading the Rehoboth Plain, the Newman Ring of the Green settlement in old Rehoboth/Rumford and Roger Williams’ short stay at Omega Cove on the Seekonk River.

This once was English America’s local outpost frontier ever pressuring westward against and upon the Blackstone River’s flowing waters and the Seekonk River tidal estuary, both serving as a natural western buttress of the day, with all involved crouching at the gateway with anticipation and looking ever westward toward North America’s entire wild western unexplored territory. 

BLACKSTONE RIVER

How fast time flies, how quickly our world changes.

Don Doucette

“Ten Mile River Rambles”

Friends of the Ten Mile and Bucklin Brook

Citizens of the Narragansett Basin